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Bungee View is designed to support non-technical users in gaining an understanding of an image collection as a whole, and in finding patterns in their meta-data, while they search and browse.

Motivation

Web search engines have attracted widespread demand for information retrieval from unstructured documents. The number of structured and semi-structured documents available on the Web is also huge, and collections of these are more amenable to data mining. Yet there has been no similar explosion of interest in this kind of exploration. Finding patterns in databases of political contributions, environmental data, or hospital and school performance would surely interest many citizens. The main research question for this project is how to support such exploration for users with little or no training in statistics or programming. In contrast to other data-mining systems, Bungee View focuses on learnability, responsiveness, robustness, and providing a satisfying user experience.

Source: http://cityscape.inf.cs.cmu.edu/bungee/ (via information aesthetics)

Spines, originally uploaded by Ca W.

C. foi conhecer a nova bilbioteca pública de Amsterdã, a OBA – Openbare Bibliotheek Amsterdam, e tirou muuuitas fotos legais. O que mais achei interessante – e diferente de outras bibliotecas – foi essa indicação temática nas lombadas dos livros.

Não são bem uma catalogação, na verdade (eu acho) mas uma indicação para os leitores do tipo de assunto. Eu adorei, apesar de um ou outro símbolo não ser lá muito compreensível :D . Mas acho muito válida toda proposta para tentar uma comunicação mais “humana” com o leitor, e menos matemática do que o Dewey.

Ah, e claro, a biblioteca é linda, de morrer de inveja! Veja todas as fotos aqui:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/camilawerner/sets/72157601450701460/

I’ve read at Bibliotecários sem Fronteiras (Librarians without borders?) about a public library that changed their categorizing system and will not use the Dewey. They’ll organize the books like a book store, or, in fact, will organize the books  in a more human system. Thinking about usability, Dewey, in my opinion, is for computers, not for people :P

The demise of the century-old Dewey Decimal system is overdue, county librarians say: It’s just too confusing for people to hunt down books using those long strings of numbers and letters. Dewey essentially arranges books by topic and assigns call numbers for each book.

“A lot of times, patrons feel like they’re going to a library and admitting defeat because they don’t understand Dewey Decimal and can’t find the book they’re looking for,” said Marshall Shore, adult service coordinator for the Maricopa County Library District and driving force behind the idea. “People think of books by subject. Very few people say, ‘Oh, I know Dewey by heart.’ “

Libraries are trying to adapt to changing times, experts said, and their success lies in a generation of young people who are more comfy at Borders than libraries.

Link: http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/0530nodewey0530.html

I think it’s amazing and I hope it doesn’t stop here. When I see what Amazon does to help consumers to find their books (of course, Amazon wants to sell books, it’s important that everybody finds them and others that they don’t even imagine), I think we still have a lot to learn with the book stores, nowadays. I think Dewey has one function, that is organizing the contents for the librarians, but for regular people, it doesn’t help a lot…

But, reading the comments in the article, is kind of scaring how many people is against the idea.  That’s why, sometimes, I think the libraries will die. It looks like the librarians are always so afraid of changes or trying something new. And, in a world that we always have something new everyday, it looks like suicide…

O jeito é explorar outros campos de trabalho :)

guardaroupa_teatromunicipal.pdf

¿Qué es Paperlandia?

(pronúnciese peiperlandia)

Paperlandia es un experimento orientado a resolver servicios documentales en base a esquemas de portabilidad

Paperlandia articula dos niveles de portabilidad, portabilidad de estructuras de datos y portabilidad terminológica.

Para la portabilidad de estructuras de datos se utiliza el marco técnico provisto por la Iniciativa OAI-PMH, en particular, la aplicación de cosechado de metadatos PKP Open Archives Harvester.

Para la portabilidad terminológica se utiliza una versión experimental de TemaTres que dispone de un módulo de armonización de vocabularios.

Actualmente Paperlandia procesa los datos provenientes de:

• Digital Library of Information Science and Technology (DLIST)
• E-prints in Librarianship, Information Science
• Temaria: revistas digitales de biblioteconomía y documentación

Para el procesamiento de los mencionados repositorios se han realizado las equivalencias terminológicas necesarias.

Para complementar, o Google elaborou alguns cartazes para divulgar por ai, principalmente pendurar nas bibliotecas!

Google Librarian Center
Looking for tools to help teach your patrons how to use Google more effectively?

By popular demand, we’re now offering free downloadable teaching tools. While we’ve started small, we’re planning on making more materials available soon, including additional posters, cheat sheets, tent cards – even trainings.

Feel free to download and distribute these materials as widely as you’d like.

.. ] Infohome [ ..

Site com artigos sobre Biblioteconomia e Ciência da Informação.

Recado recebido em uma das listas sobre biblioteconomia:

“Criação de um blog para divulgar o acesso livre à informação científica
(http://blogdokura.blogspot.com/)

Criei, hoje, esse blog com o propósito de colocar algumas idéias e ações que
estamos desenvolvendo no Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e
Tecnologia. Sou Coordenador de Projetos Especiais e coordeno os projetos da
Biblioteca Digital Brasileira, assim como o do Portal de Repositórios e
Publicações Eletrônicas de Acesso Livre.

Estamos, portanto, em vias de implantar esse portal que é parte da Política
Nacional de Acesso Livre à Informação Científica. O projeto desse portal é
apoiado pela Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos (FINEP).

A partir de hoje, 11 de março de 2006, inicio esse blog, o qual conterá notícias
e ações desenvolvidas pelo Ibict em prol do acesso livre à informação
científica.

Hélio Kuramoto”

Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources (2005) [OCLC - Membership Reports]

A Percepção do Público sobre Bibliotecas e Fontes de Informação

Este é um relatório da OCLC de 2005, indicando um
vasto estudo internacional sobre as preferências
e os hábitos daqueles que procuram
informação. Este é o resultado da pesquisa da
OCLC que contou com cerca de 3.500 respostas de
consumidores de informação da Astralia, Canadá
Índia, Singapura, USA e Reino Unido

As percepções estão estudadas nos temas:

Uso da Biblioteca
Conhecimento e uso dos recursos eletrônicos da Biblioteca
Os motores de busca da Internet
O bibliotecário
Informação grátis e copyright
A marca “Biblioteca”

Em uma ampla visão os consumidores de informação
pensam na biblioteca como um lugar para pegar
livros emprestados. Mas é preciso ver o
Relatório pois para entender as percepções de uso em cada tema indicado
acima.

http://www.oclc.org/reports/2005perceptions.htm – site do Relatório

http://www.oclc.org/reports/pdfs/Percept_all.pdf
- para trazer o relatório, completo, em inglês, grátis, de 290 páginas em
.pdf

Conteúdo do Relatório

Introduction vii
Methodology xi
Report Structure xiv
Related OCLC Research and Reports xvi

Part 1: Libraries and Information Sources­ 1-1
Use, Familiarity and Favorability
1.1 Library Use 1-2
1.2 Familiarity with and Usage of Multiple Information Sources 1-7
1.3 How Respondents Learn about New Information Sources 1-19
1.4 Impressions of Information Sources 1-21
Part 2: Using the Library­In Person and Online 2-1
2.1 Activities at the Library 2-1
2.2 Awareness of Library Electronic Resources 2-6
2.3 Using Library Electronic Information Resources 2-10
2.4 Seeking Assistance in Using Library Resources 2-14
2.5 Familiarity with the Library Web Site 2-16
2.6 The Internet Search Engine, the Library and the Librarian 2-18
2.7 Keeping Up-to-Date with Library Resources 2-27
Part 3: The Library Brand 3-1
3.1 The Value of Electronic Information Resources 3-2
3.2 Judging the Trustworthiness of Information 3-4
3.3 Trust in Library Resources and Search Engines 3-6
3.4 Free vs. For-Fee Information 3-9
3.5 Validating Information 3-14
3.6 Libraries­Positive and Negative Associations 3-19
3.7 Lifestyle Fit 3-27
3.8 Books­the Library Brand 3-31
3.9 Brand Potential­Libraries, Books and Information 3-38
Part 4: Respondents’ Advice to Libraries 4-1
4.1 The Library’s Role in the Community 4-2
4.2 Rating Library Services 4-4
4.3 Advice to Libraries 4-6
Part 5: Libraries­A “Universal” Brand? 5-1
Conclusion 6-1

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